Birchencliffe Post Office on Halifax Road, which is temporarily closed, will now be permanently shut.

The plans were announced in August, followed by a six-week consultation with residents.

Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman is unhappy that all the closures will go ahead.

“I am deeply disappointed by this decision,’’ he said. “We have campaigned very hard to keep the branches open, but the Post Office has not listened to my views, the views of the community or the views of the proprietors.

“There has been an enormous number of letters written in support of keeping the post offices which are at the heart of the community.”

Mr Sheerman will meet the Post Office’s network development manager Adrian Wales on November 21 to demand answers about the Lockwood closure.

The Labour MP said: “That branch is at the heart of its community. I want to know why it was chosen for closure and I want compensation sorted out as well.”

Colne Valley Conservative Parliamentary candidate Jason McCartney found out yesterday that his local branch at Holmbridge would close.

He said: “I was in the post office when a poster arrived by special delivery saying the branch would close on November 11. It just really hit home to me.”

Mr McCartney is angry that none of the branches have been saved from the axe.

He said: “I think the consultation has been a complete sham. The Post Office haven’t taken the views of residents on board at all.

“I know ladies in their 80s who spent a morning writing out four-page letters explaining why their local branch should stay open.”

Mr McCartney criticised local Labour MPs for not voting to stop the closures in March.

He said: “They should hang their heads in shame. They can find billions to bail out the banks but they can’t find the money to safeguard local services.”

But Colne Valley MP Kali Mountford rejected the criticism.

The Labour woman said: “His comments aren’t helpful. We could play ping-pong politics with this all day.”

But she is unhappy that the closures will go ahead.

She said: “It’s very disappointing for the people who work in the post offices and for the communities which use them. It makes me wonder if the Post Office was serious about this consultation. I feel that our voices haven’t been heard.”

Ms Mountford added that she would write to postal minister Pat McFadden to protest against the closures.

Meanwhile, a top councillor labelled yesterday’s announcement “another kick in the teeth” following earlier closures in north Kirklees.

Kirklees Council’s Cabinet member for finance Clr Andrew Palfreeman said: “When the closures take place it will mean the network of post offices in Kirklees will have been butchered from 70 to 52.

“These closures will have a devastating impact on the community spirit and life in the areas concerned. They are another kick in the teeth for people in Kirklees.

“Post Office Ltd and the Government pays lip service to local opinion and throws out a few crumbs in terms of saving the odd post office from closure, but decimates the rest.”